Just what we need… another TV medical drama series. But there’s obviously a reason why.

The series is said to be based on CNN’s chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta’s upcoming novel titled Monday Mornings which follows the lives of 5 surgeons “as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings,” says Deadline.

And further…

It uses as a backdrop the hospital’s Monday Morbidity and Mortality conference, considered the most secretive meeting in all of medicine, where doctors gather for a confidential review of complications and errors in patient care.

Rhames has signed on to play a “physically imposing former professional football player who now is the most celebrated trauma chief in the country.“

I don’t why I chuckled when I read that description. Marsellus Wallace is about to go medieval on some trauma room asses.

But should be a steady paycheck for Ving… assuming the series gets picked up; and David E. Kelley certainly has a fairly solid track record.